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I knew all of this; I want to see the post 2007 numbers. The top 10% love to tell us they deserve that because of the risk they take- so in a recession, they should be more massively negative than the rest of us, and I for one doubt their story line.

These charts are depressing. Yet the apologists look right past them or quibble with some small detail. They make it their job not to see.

The Bishops need to speak out about these problems, the disorder these numbers represent. Real people, real families suffer because of these numbers. But the bishops fear alienating or upsetting the establishment, the donors. So many well to do Catholics have been so completely captured by the mindset that sees the status quo as a-okay. The Church needs to proclaim their core truths. Giving comfort to the comfortable by the likes of Fr Sirico is not the work of the Church, the work of Jesus. If we are not going to be serious about being Catholic maybe we should just pack the whole thing in, go to a mega-church, embrace the ‘prosperity gospel’ w/o embarrassment and make Joel Osteen our American pope.

The Church needs real reform here. It will be a smaller, poorer church but it would be more authentic. Perhaps the fight with Obama and the Dems over the Healthcare impositions will ignite a activism to be true more generally to Catholic values in all areas. The Church must wake up to realize we can not be beholden to any political agenda or party. The Church works in the world yet still stands apart from it. To our rightwing friends this means St Ronald Reagan is not a saint and the republican agenda is not “God’s work” Catholic or otherwise. The truth hurts.